The Energy Department made the rules public a month after NPR reported about their existence. The rules slash requirements for security and environmental protections.

For the past half century, successive Presidential administrations and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission have thwarted the ...

As the world steamrolls toward more nuclear power, countries looking to cut costs must do a better job of planning — in part by building reactors in factories instead of on site, a new study says. Why ...

The concrete stack stood 175 feet tall, much shorter than when the reactor was irradiating fuel to produce plutonium.

A towering concrete exhaust stack at the Hanford nuclear reservation in Washington state was ...